South Africa

Changing Social Policy: The Child Support Grant in South Africa

Description from HSRC Press: An important historical record of one part of post-apartheid South Africa’s policymaking, Changing Social...

Technology, informal workers and cities: insights from Ahmedabad (India), Durban (South Africa) and Lima (Peru)

This special issue on urban livelihoods was developed in collaboration with WIEGO.

Constraints to Growth and Employment in Durban: Evidence from the Informal Economy

South Africa’s Informal Economy: Reflections From a Second Exposure Dialogue in Durban

School of Development Studies Research Report No 90

Options for Organizing Waste Pickers in South Africa

 This brief is part of the WIEGO Publication Series. View list of all WIEGO briefs.

Securing Livelihoods: A Gendered Analysis of Support Interventions available to Street Traders in the Durban Metropolitan Area

The Urban Informal Workforce: Street Vendors

These findings are based on research conducted in 2012 as part of the Informal Economy Monitoring Study (IEMS), a project under Inclusive...

Mean Streets: Migration, Xenophobia and Informality in South Africa

‘The State in a Changing World’; plus ça change?: Reflections from the south on the World Bank’s 1997 World Development ReportJournal of International Development

Abstract: Drawing on South African experiences, this paper provides a critical evaluation of the World Bank’s 1997 World Development...

Dislocating modernity: Identity, space and representations of street trade in Durban, South Africa

South Africa’s cities have experienced dramatic changes over the past decade. Cities are now home to a multiracial population, and have been...